Files To Go for Office 365

File Migration for SharePoint Online & OneDrive for Business

Files To Go for Office 365 is a file migration tool for copying files from network
drives, file servers, network shares and personal folders to SharePoint Online team
sites and OneDrive for Business.

Files To Go makes your migration to Office 365 smoother, faster and streamlined
when you have thousands of files and gigabytes of data to move. Files To Go is compliant
with Office 365 file naming standards, limits and boundaries.

If you are migrating user home drives from a file server to OneDrive for Business take advantage of Files To Go's specific support for bulk OneDrive for Business migration including; OneDrive for Business migration readiness checks, automated provisioning of OneDrive for Business, file filtering and path exclusions, automated access management to each OneDrive for Business.

Features

Compatible with Office 365 business, enterprise and education plans

Renames files with illegal characters that are blocked or banned by SharePoint Online

Automatically renames file extensions that are blocked by SharePoint Online

Supports Office 365 managed identity and ADFS

Identifies files with URL path lengths and file sizes that are too big for SharePoint
Online

Only copies new or changed files if you rerun the migration (incremental migration)

Keeps the original modified and created dates of the files

Copies empty folders

Supports migrating files up to 10GB in size

Migrate multiple source folders to multiple team site locations in bulk

Warns on site collection storage limits being exceeded

Analyse and migrate to many OneDrive for Business sites from user home drives in bulk

Provides a complete audit trail of every file migrated

Creates (provisions) OneDrive for Business sites in bulk that have not already been created

Manages permissions on OneDrive for Business sites automatically when migrating in bulk

Automatically re-authenticates with SharePoint Online for long running migrations

Specify file name filters to exclude particular file types when migrating in bulk

Estimates how long your migration will take with a realtime countdown during migration

Creates team site document libraries if they don't exist when migrating in bulk

Uploads files in parallel achieving fast migration speeds up to 20GB per hour and better

Ability to pause and resume an active migration

Filter out old files or very large files when migrating in bulk

Download the Free Trial

See how Files To Go for Office 365 can help your migration with our free trial. The trial is fully functional, limited only by the number of files you can migrate.

Files To Go works with Microsoft Windows on the desktop and Windows Server 2003 and above including SBS (Small Business Server) with Microsoft .Net 3.5 or later.

Trouble running the Files To Go trial? Click here for assistance. Trouble on Windows Server 2003 or 2008? Ensure the server is up to date with the latest Windows updates and patches.

Here is a quick walk through of your free Files To Go trial. Files To Go supports four modes of operation; migrating to team sites and site collections, migrating to your personal OneDrive for Business, migrating to team sites in bulk and migrating to many OneDrive for Business in bulk from user home drives.

To migrate to your team site, choose the Your Team Site option in Files To Go.

Files To Go will prompt you to sign in to Office 365, if you are federated the sign in is automatic. Once signed in, browse your Office 365 and choose the library or folder to migrate to and then choose which files and folders to migrate.

Files To Go analyses the files you have chosen then shows how much data there is to migrate, an estimate of how long the migration will take, and highlights any issues it found.

Now run the migration. Files To Go will migrate all the files and folders to your chosen team site library.

Once your migration completes Files To Go provides a full audit report of every file migrated and any issues it had during migration. Just click the link in Files To Go to open the report.

A subscription to Files To Go includes one Tenant Seat. This permits one user to operate Files To Go to migrate files and folders to your site collections and to OneDrive for Business sites.

If you have a large migration you can purchase additional seats to help split the workload between your colleagues or to migrate in parallel on multiple computers.

Migrating in bulk to your team sites can also help on large migrations. To migrate in bulk choose the Bulk Team Site Migration option.

Provide Files To Go with a CSV format file with a batch of the source folders and destination document libraries in your team sites to migrate to. Files To Go provides a sample CSV file for you to use as a starting point for your own. Use optional file name filters and exclude paths to exclude file types or whole folders from the migration.

Further optional filters are available to you to exclude very large files or very old files from your migration. For example you can exclude all files that have not been modified since 1998 or exclude files that are over 1GB in size.

Files To Go will analyse each source folder and destination document library providing a summary of how much data there is to migrate and highlighting any issues. If a document library does not exist you have the option for Files To Go to create it for you. Follow the remaining wizard steps to migrate the files and view your migration report. Migrating in bulk makes large migrations easier to manage.

Files To Go can analyse and migrate from many Active Directory home folders or personal folders on a file server to OneDrive for Business in bulk.

Choose the Bulk OneDrive for Business Migration option to start the process.

Provide Files To Go with a CSV file. Each row in the CSV file identifies an Office 365 user and the location of their personal folder or home drive.

Use optional columns in the CSV to refine the migration. Use file name filters to exclude file types like executables and archive files. You can migrate to subfolders in the users' OneDrive for Business. Exclude folder paths like AppData and Favorites from the migration.

Now choose your CSV file in Files To Go.

Files To Go checks if each OneDrive for Business site is ready for migration. If any OneDrive for Business sites are not ready Files To Go will provision the OneDrive for Business sites in bulk.

After that, Files To Go takes care of the whole analysis and migration for you, even managing permissions on OneDrive for Business and warning you if OneDrive for Business storage thresholds and item limits will be exceeded.

Bulk migration is an add-on to your Files To Go subscription. If you have many source folders or OneDrive for Business to migrate you should consider adding bulk migration to your subscription.

Achieving 20GB Per Hour Migration Throughput

In our controlled test environment a single instance of Files To Go running on a single Windows server achieved a data migration throughput in excess of 20GB per hour.

The test environment comprised a Microsoft Azure virtual machine of size "Large" running Files To Go v16.1. The virtual machine was located in the same Microsoft data centre that the Office 365 subscription was hosted in. This ensured that network latency and bandwidth were optimal.

A single instance of Files To Go was set to migrate a series of 10MB data files to a team site document library. On completion of the migration test run the average migration performance achieved by Files To Go was over 20GB of file data migrated per hour.

Who is Using Files To Go?

MH Partnership

Data Migrated

28 GB

Florida Dept. Elder Affairs

Data Migrated

2.4 TB

Alpine Interactive

Data Migrated

150 GB

UC District School Board

Data Migrated

900 GB

Complies with Standards

File name restrictions

Blocked file extensions

File size restrictions

URL path lengths

OneDrive limits

Performance Calculator

Use this form to calculate your Files To Go migration performance (speed and duration). The calculator is a guide not a guarantee of performance, actual results may vary.

How much data are you migrating to Office 365 with Files To Go?

gigabytes (GB)

What's the upload bandwidth dedicated to each PC/server running Files To Go?

megabits per second (Mbit/s)

How many PCs or servers will you run Files To Go in parallel on (for better throughput)?

PCs or servers in parallel

Your migration to Office 365 with Files To Go is estimated to take 26.6 hours.

Need an accurate estimation of your migration time? Download and run the Files To Go trial for a migration estimate based on the files and folders you select.

Migration speeds of up to 20GB per hour or better are achievable with a single instance of Files To Go depending upon your network performance and other factors.

What Do Customers Say?

Randy Crosby, Edina Realty Home Services

The success of migrating 3,000 users to OneDrive for Business could not have been possible without Files To Go! 10 million files, 9TB of data and Files To Go has been FLAWLESS! Thank you so much!

Mark, MTR Services

Glad I found you. The software is working perfectly. Over 1.5TB migrated! I am very impressed.

Dave, Upper Canada District School Board

We migrated approx. 900GB and 1.5 million files for 500 staff to OneDrive for Business. Files To Go was instrumental in allowing us to complete this monumental task in a very short period of time. Great product!

CIO, Britannic Technologies

File to Go was brilliant. We used it to successfully migrate over 19,000 files to
SharePoint Online.

Hymie Sasson, Consultant

Your software is AMAZING! The transfer speeds are truly unbelievable. It's averaging at about 6 GB/hour for us!

Do you need to migrate user home drives to OneDrive for Business or shared drives to many SharePoint Online team site libraries? The bulk migration add-on uses a CSV file to streamline your large file migrations. Accessed from the "Bulk Migration" heading in Files To Go.